Councils of
Ancyra

Three
councils were held in the former capital of Galatia (now Angora) in
Asia Minor, during the fourth century. The first, an orthodox
plenary synod, was held in 314, and its twenty-five disciplinary
canons constitute one of the most important documents in the early
history of the administration of the Sacrament of Penance. Nine of
them deal with conditions for the reconciliation of the lapsi; the
others, with marriage, alienations of church property, etc. The
synod of 358 was a Semi-Arian conciliabulum, presided over by Basil
of Ancyra. It condemned the grosser Arian blasphemies, but set forth
an equally heretical doctrine in the proposition that the Son was in
all things similar to the Father, but not identical in substance. In
375, Arian bishops met at Ancyra and deposed several bishops, among
them St. Gregory of Nyssa.